ContactCentre Director: Fionna Barlow

7105 / 177 – 219 Mitchell RoadALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 P. +61 2 9565 4500alexandria@froebel.com.au

www.froebel.com.au

Play-based. Purposeful

Learning through play and purposeful activities, guided by experienced and passionate educators; for example at our Little Scientist’s Day, designed to spark your child’s enthusiasm in natural science and technology through fun experiments.

Children need stimulating and fun challenges so that they learn with joy, keep their curiosity up, and are proud of what they have learned and achieved.

Healthy. Sustainable

Health and sustainability education is one of our core values. We participate in the NSW Munch&Move program, implement healthy food & nutrition, are “Asthma Friendly” & SunSmart accredited, and promote an active lifestyle. Weekly child-appropriate Yoga, Dance and Ten-nis classes (on the local tennis court) are essential elements of our program. We also offer an exciting variety of nature experiences and activities in our learning garden.

FROEBEL ALEXANDRIALicenseeFROEBEL Australia Limited

Level 2 Suite 31650 George StreetSYDNEY NSW 2000P. +61 2 8080 0065

info@froebel.com.au

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FROEBEL Alexandria …

… is located in the heart of “Sydney Park Village” opposite the Alan Davidson Oval. Our centre is entrenched in the Sydney Park community; we are grateful to have strong and loving bonds between children, educators and parents. FROEBEL Alexandria is a purpose built centre, large enough to cater for 44 children but small enough that your child will feel very much at home. Our spacious, 400m² playground is equipped with a new natural, bilingual learning garden – an outdoor classroom with edible garden beds for the children to grow and harvest their own herbs and vegetables.

FROEBEL Alexandria has received an exceptional high-quality accreditation in all seven quality areas through the National Childcare Accreditation Council in May 2011. We are open 52 weeks from 7.30am to 6.00pm (except on Public Holidays), and accept enrolments for children from 6 weeks to 6 years of age.

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Our Philosophy “Children should not be housed and told what to do, but rather happily grow, strengthen and develop in the sunlight, opening up like a flower under the careful hand of an attentive gardener.” (Friedrich Fröbel)

Our philosophy is rooted in progressive ideas developed by Friedrich Fröbel, the renowned educator who shaped the kindergarten concept almost 200 years ago. His holistic approach to early learning is inspiring us even today: child-centred, play-based, in unity with nature. We appreciate children as free, active, feeling and thinking human beings, seeing patterns and drawing conclusions. Early learning at FROEBEL supports all capabilities of your child: aesthetic, creative, cultural, imaginative, linguistic, mathematical, moral, musical, physical, scientific, social, spiritual and symbolic. We want your child to experience joy, wonder, concentration, unity and satisfaction - and activities that have sense, purpose and meaning to him or her.

Our teachers and educators at FROEBEL Alexandria guide your child on their journey of exploring the world – very much like a gardener who is nurturing seeds and seedlings in his garden to make them flourish in all their individuality. Excellent qualifications of our team, educational professionalism and state-of-the-art training ensure that your child is ideally supported in his or her play and learning adventures.

We design the children’s daily activities in a way that children discover and develop their individual abilities. We believe in the uniqueness of each child’s capacity and potential and advocate active educational partnerships with the parents by building a partnership of care. We encourage children to be self-active, self-educating individuals, and recognise the importance of play as a central, integrating element in your child’s development and learning.

Bilingual early learning with the Immersion Concept

We strongly focus on immersive bilingual early learning. Language has a critical period for learning. Studies show that babies and children are geniuses at acquiring a second language until they turn 7, and then there is a systematic decline. FROEBEL ensures that your child gets a head-start in his/her linguistic abilities, tolerance and multicultural awareness.

Native German-speaking educators and their English-speaking colleagues work and speak with the children in their respective mother tongue only (“One person – One language”). Thus, every child is immersed in a second language on a daily basis, gets familiar with the language melody, and learns it in a playful way without the need of „language classes“. We strongly believe that language learning should not be forced upon a child; we offer opportunities to learn.

FROEBEL’s approach is a child-specific and age-appropriate method of early language learning. The new language is introduced by native-speaking educators who use their language consistently in everyday situations, make the new language an integral and natural element of the children’s environment. All activities are conducted in English or German. Your child experiences the language in a playful way, through children’s songs, games, media, as well as specific design of the interiors in both languages. Our educators support their communication with the children through mimics, gestures and daily routines. The learning of the new language follows the same principles as the learning of the child‘s first language. Children use the experience they recently gained in mastering their primary language, and therefore abilities they already possess and develop.

Welcome and “herzlich willkommen” to our FROEBEL family!

FROEBEL is a premium non-profit provider of bilingual children’s services. We offer your child

• excellence in modern early childhood education & care,• a unique bilingual early learning program.

FROEBEL Alexandria will become an extension of your family; a new, small world for your child to start growing into a community with peers in a loving atmosphere and a stimulating learning environment. Our program is based on the Early Years Learning Framework and designed to encourage your child’s autonomy and self-esteem.

We aim to be your trusted partner in care and endeavour to offer your child every opportunity to be an adventurous, successful learner and a happy, confident member of our community.

Non-profit FROEBEL Australia has been established in Sydney in February 2009 as a subsidiary of the charitable, highly-regarded FRÖBEL e.V., founded in Berlin in 1990 and today one of Europe’s largest providers of early childhood education, child care and after-school care programs.

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